E.M. Knowles

E.M. Knowles lives in historic Cook County, Georgia with a lovingly patient husband and a gregarious little daughter. She has worked for Examiner.com as their Savannah Progressive Examiner and as part of the 2010 Southeast Regional Elections Team and is currently a member of The Berrien County Historical Foundation. As a graduate of Columbia College with a B.A. in psychology and sociology, and as enraptured by current events as she is history, her works of fiction lean to the cerebral and macabre. Her novels have been award winners for NaNoWriMo in consecutive years with Diary of Mimosa Creek (2012), Iona (2013), and her most recent fantasy novel, The Yawning Veil (2014).

Shadow Cliff Book One: Wolf Night

Young Adult, Speculative Fiction

Edwin Traze is a lonely, socially awkward dockworker in his early twenties. Orphaned twice by tragedy, he is an exhausted and solitary man. At night, he goes home from work, showers, and goes to bed. This night was like every other, except for how it ended.

He is woken to the presence of frightening creatures who whisk him away to a strange place inhabited by werewolves, vampires, genetic experiments, and ghosts, called Shadow Cliff.

Once there, everyone tells him he's dead.

This is where Edwin Traze's life begins.

Diary of Mimosa Creek

Historical Fiction

Katherine Johnson, a woman of means living in Troupville, GA, in 1861, keeps a diary of her isolation and sorrow. Frantic to make sense of the workings of her own mind and haunted by the confines of her estate, she struggles with a husband gone to war, a population migrating away from her and the volatile times she lives in. Slowly succumbing to the toxins of the psyche or a poison of her own design, she is a woman wrought and desperate to tightly grasp at any shred of solace.

Iona

Historical Fiction

A haunting Troubadour weaves the tale of the unfortunate Princess Iona and her people, a Caledonian tribal kingdom, at the end of the first century CE. The mystery of a murder and the madness of seeing the spectral hand of guilt from all directions propel the young Princess through her journey, delving into the political, societal and psychological darkness at the root of her declining kingdom. Willing to wield the weapon of vengeance in her quest for justice, this tragedy marks the fragility of a mind racked with sorrows and the determination gained through absolute love.

The Yawning Veil

Fantasy

The Four Holds are segregated by resources, fear, and power. These mythic realms offer tales of heroes, revolutionaries, secrets, and sacrifice. In the East, a young boy murders a Prince and vows to right his wrong. The Western Crown struggles with the sudden disappearance of their King and Queen. The North suffers a deadly drought of sustenance while the South casts shadows over the motives of those closest to the Queen. In the midst of the growing tensions, a sudden sickness begins to sweep the lands and soon it is clear: no one is safe.